Written Question·Home Office·UIN 35950

Cybersecurity

Tabled: 5 March 2025
Answered: 12 March 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle of Wight East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of requiring technology companies to build backdoors into encrypted systems on public (a) safety and (b) privacy.

Answer

Dan Jarvis
The UK has a longstanding position of protecting people’s privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists.The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false. The Invest...

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